Ok, callout post for the tiktok bible guy @maklelan.bsky.social I jest, but I think this deals with some pretty important issues, that I've spent a chunk of the past two years studying thanks to @haydentank.bsky.social for feedback on drafts of this simonereadstexts.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Israeli settlers have rampaged through multiple towns in the occupied West Bank for two nights in a row, unleashing a campaign of destruction and terror on Palestinian residents with the backing of the Israeli and U.S. governments.

I don’t think we should go back to twitter levels of toxicity but there’s a lot of confidently stupid turbolib opinions on here that can only exist in a low predator environment.

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Pretty good post and maybe some of the worst replies I’ve ever seen

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

If you've never eaten tamales sold out of a minivan in a grocery store parking lot, you've never truly lived

This is, to be clear, the result of 80 years of pro-religious US government (and corporate) propagandizing that started as a reaction to the USSR. It started with Truman and Ike, got put on the back burner in the 60s, and then came roaring to life with white backlash to the Civil Rights era.

Schumer’s statement isn’t “anti-this-war” at all, and claiming that it *was* is not reading what’s in the text, it’s wishcasting.

America and Israel must be dealt with. All love to the people of Iran.

you got up and clapped for him when he was saber-rattling about iran, what's up with that?

The Ezekiel diorama just came to life and now he’s shitting into his hands and putting it into the fire.

I think… I think I may have done something really bad

This immediately calls to mind Paula Fredriksen’s wretched WaPo piece from two years ago, at one of the most intense points of the Gaza Genocide, in which she engaged in historical obscurantism and attempted to recast the very term Palestine as nothing more than a colonialist marker.

steve winwood (but he's on the island): ♩ bring me a child's blood ♩

Bart Ehrman’s new Bible course is being taught by a West Bank settler who works at an illegal West Bank settler university, and the announcement email not only fails to disclose that but also lists Qumran under locations in “Israel”. Not great, Bart!

A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME (Wayans, 1994)

Axios reports @governorwalz.mn.gov won’t call an eviction moratorium because it is “legally fraught” yet the definition sure sounds like one. www.mprnews.org/story/2023/0...

Could a GOP senator who recently decided against running for re-election say THIS??

This post has an agenda

Many videos demonstrate that cats will step on the Bible but not on the Koran, that’s enough evidence for me.

We are lucky as hell that we can depend on ICE to be honest about the seriousness of the circumstances

🔴 Farewell scenes from Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City show a funeral procession for 14 Palestinians, including three children, killed in Israeli strikes on the Zeitoun and Tuffah neighborhoods east of the city. Children are seen crying as they mourn their father, killed amid yet another day of...

This Saturday at 5pm pacific. I will be spending 2 hours making a worm as happy as possible. And then, The Fate will be decided and I will either release the worm or eat it. Cast your vote, make yourself heard. You will only have one chance!

shes right, it was my idea to have kamala enlist The Cheney Clan to go on a human entrail spreading spree

Two Human Rights Watch employees — the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team — resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity.

“dunno what happened” is a pretty funny thing to say when you’re trying to pretend this site isn’t a slowly deteriorating mess

"Kristol has at least acknowledged he's been wrong"

Sorry babe that sounds crazy but I’m slammed hopefully everything’s good www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-news-sta...

In the most insane Bible at the Movies episode yet, I've brought along the hilarious @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social and @thelukeman.bsky.social from @storesthepodcast.bsky.social to talk about Assassin 33 A.D., a movie that genuinely must be seen to be believed.

Maybe the toughest chapter of my in-progress history of ancient Israel, Judah, and Palestine, drawing from everywhere from Assyriology, Bible and epigraphy to Anatolian archaeology and political anthropology. Feels like I'm over the hump of what I hope is a relevant as well as challenging work.

Trump 1 to Trump 2 a rare "first as farce, then as tragedy" situation

i looked up Yaddle and i found out that Yaddle took a sabbatical on Kronk.

Trump has been scared of dying since his first term at least (remember "Am I going out like Stan Chera?"), he seems to be sundowning, and he had a stroke, my bullshit guess is that he had some pain that aspirin couldn't cure and made them turn the plane around when it descended into a panic attack.

We are receiving reports that President Trump’s Venus for Men malfunctioned and he will be switching to a plane with a working Venus for Men, so he can continue to experience the ultimate in hands-free orgasmic pleasure - with or without an erection!

Bible Lore Pod is BACK! This time I'm going over the Documentary Hypothesis (see below) and the Ten Commandments (whatever that means). Get it where ya get pods, some great stuff lined up for 2026! Here's the Patreon link: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-29-...

Oh man I was wondering if there were concerns to be raised. And now they have mistreated A TROOP?!?!?!

My man Ronald Reagan was president then

Who could have guessed that giving the Nobel Peace Prize to a person with a historical sycophantic relationship to the US begging for US military intervention in her country was not a subtle flex against the US president after all?

wow, conservative officials consider it a drug problem instead of a housing crisis? thanks for repeating their bullshit uncritically, now how do you account for the fact that this problem skyrocketed in perfect parallel with housing costs?

This year's first episode of the Bible Lore Podcast, coming this week for Patreon subscribers, is an exploration of the Documentary Hypothesis, the posited division of sources behind the Pentateuch/Torah. Here's a decent chart from Wikipedia that I've added a key to.

Let me be the first and probably only Bible related content you consume to say fuck America, and any American who gets shot in Venezuela has it coming.

Eastern Washington is such a depraved and nasty place.